(2023-03-07). Friday 3/10: Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery Street | San Francisco…
(2023-03-07). United States: Behind the derailment in Ohio — anti-worker deregulation, corporate greed. greenleft.org.au The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, highlighted safety regulation failures, indifference and anti-union bias, writes Malik Miah.
(2023-03-07). Will segregationist Bezalel Smotrich be welcomed to Washington? electronicintifada.net Israeli finance minister to be in US just days after he said Palestinian village should be "wiped out."
(2023-03-07). Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse. juancole.com 
The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures. By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org — "The Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company's demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to …
(2023-03-06). Rail lobbyists pay Politico to tout train safety. mronline.org 
The Beltway newsletter is running ads about the railroad industry's alleged commitment to safety as rail lobbyists fight new safety rules.
(2023-03-06). Fascists Are Trying to Co-Opt Mutual Aid Organizing in East Palestine, Ohio. truthout.org After canvassing, phone-banking and holding public meetings, Columbiana County, Ohio, organizers with River Valley Organizing (RVO) released a set of demands from residents of East Palestine and surrounding areas in the wake of Norfolk Southern's train derailment disaster that led to a controlled burn of toxic chemicals and mandatory evacuations of residents within one mile of the crash site last… |
(2023-03-06). Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's self-described 'fascist homophobe' finance minister, to visit U.S. peoplesworld.org 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grudgingly conceded Friday that a Cabinet ally's demand for a Palestinian village to be "wiped out" was "inappropriate." Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said last Wednesday the town of Hawara should be "erased" and that "the State of Israel should do it." His remark sparked an international uproar, with Israel's key …
(2023-03-06). Jewish New Yorkers Rally at Schumer's Home to End US Military Funding to Israel. truthout.org Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers rallied and marched on the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday to protest his embrace of far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid growing violence against Palestinians — violence that demonstrators said is enabled by the U.S. government's unwavering military and diplomatic support. "As Jews who support freedom and dignity for all… |
(2023-03-06). 'NY Times' Buries Israeli Military Complicity In West Bank Pogrom. popularresistance.org Yesterday's New York Times report on the rising violence in occupied West Bank Palestine is an insult to our intelligence. The paper could not ignore the latest Israeli settler/colonist pogrom against Palestinians, but reporters Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner used time-honored techniques to downplay its seriousness and the responsibility for it. | The article's most dishonest feature was that it buried the most alarming news — Israeli government military complicity in the ferocious attacks — down in paragraph 26. Here's the relevant section: | Asked why the Israeli Army did not prevent the settl…
(2023-03-06). East Palestine's "Containment Dam" Overflows. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-06). Ohio rail cleanup workers fall ill as yet another train derails. peoplesworld.org 
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The unionized workers cleaning up the mess from chemicals released by Norfolk Southern's giant freight train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 are getting sick. But when they complained about nausea, migraine headaches, and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to their immediate bosses at the wreck site, they got the …
(2023-03-06). Palestine Solidarity Movement Speaks Out At Board Of Investment Meeting. popularresistance.org St. Paul, Minnesota – On March 2, the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) which includes Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, State Auditor Blaha and Secretary of State Simon, met for the first time this year at the state capitol. They meet quarterly to monitor the investments of Minnesota public employees. At the meeting members of the Palestine solidarity movement spoke out. | One of the speakers was Brandon Schorsch, an anti-Zionist Jew and activist with the Anti-War Committee, who stated, "So today, building on our testimony from last August, we bring a list of well over a dozen companies that the S…
(2023-03-06). The Role Of Big Investors In East Palestine And Ukraine. popularresistance.org U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev Feb. 20 and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The trip was purposefully made to focus attention on the one-year anniversary of the U.S.- and NATO-led proxy war against Russia, and Biden promised large amounts of military aid to Zelensky's regime in Kiev. | Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, had become the lead news story. Because the Biden administration had done little to focus on Ohio, the Ukraine trip caused unexpected political problems at home.
(2023-03-06). Palestinian prisoners complete 20 days of civil disobedience against Israeli jail authorities. peoplesdispatch.org The prisoners' agitation started in response to recent punitive measures introduced by the extremist government in Israel, and is expected to escalate in the coming days into a mass indefinite hunger strike…
(2023-03-06). Warren Urges Regulators to Stop Railroad Merger in Wake of East Palestine Crash. truthout.org As scrutiny of the railroad industry increases in the wake of a disastrous crash in Ohio last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is advocating against a proposed merger between two large rail companies that she says would only compound problems within the industry. In a letter sent to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an agency charged with regulating the rail industry and… |
(2023-03-06). Revolutionary intellectual and freedom fighter: The living legacy of Basil al-Araj. samidoun.net 
On the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Basil Al-Araj, Palestinian revolutionary intellectual, youth leader and freedom fighter who resisted the occupation until the last moment, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes his living legacy of struggle and resistance that continues to blossom everywhere Palestinians, Arabs and internationals mobilize to seek liberation. He exemplified the …
(2023-03-06). Presos palestinos en Israel rechazan medidas de castigo. telesurtv.net Por vigésimo día incurren en actos de desobediencia civil para derrotar medidas punitivas impuestas por el Servicio Penitenciario.
(2023-03-06). Huwara offensive against Palestinians fuels anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel. wsws.org It is impossible for Israeli workers to halt the government's plans for a dictatorship or to prevent all-out war with the Palestinians without rejecting nationalism and allying themselves directly with the Palestinians…
(2023-03-06). "It's going to keep happening all over America": East Palestine, Ohio residents speak out at town hall on train derailment. wsws.org Last Saturday, another massive Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio, showing the government is allowing the railroads to carry on as before.
(2023-03-07). The US Trying to 'Get' Israel against Russia is a Tricky Call. journal-neo.org 
In a bid to expand the global alliance against Russia to defeat the latter in Ukraine and eventually bring a regime change in Moscow, the US is proactively seeking to enlist Israel's support. Apparently, Washington has met some recent — although fragile — success. On February 23, the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution …
(2023-03-07). Israeli Airstrike Hits Syria's Aleppo Airport. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Aleppo International Airport early Tuesday, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service, Syria's news agency SANA reported. "At 2: 07 a.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the sea towards the international airport in Aleppo, which caused material damage to it, and as a result …
(2023-03-07). How Israeli Cyber Weapons Are Taking Over Latin America. scheerpost.com 
By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News In January, Salvadoran newspaper El Faro revealed that the country's police have purchased three Israeli surveillance tools. Through the approximately $2.2 million contract, El Salavador's police acquired the Wave Guard Tracer, from Wave Guard Technologies, designed to trace calls, text, and data, the GEOLOC system sold by an unknown Israeli firm, …
(2023-03-07). Israeli airstrikes target Aleppo airport, making aid delivery in Syria more difficult. peoplesdispatch.org The airstrike is expected to affect aid delivery to areas affected by the devastating earthquake on February 6, in which 6,000 were killed in Syria and thousands more injured and displaced…
(2023-03-07). Israel ataca con misiles al aeropuerto sirio de Alepo. telesurtv.net El ataque de las fuerzas sionistas se llevó a cabo a las 02: 07 (hora local) desde la dirección del mar Mediterráneo.
(2023-03-06). The fabled Abraham Accords and their significance. journal-neo.org 
The so-called Abraham Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco that have been closely mediated and supervised by the US. The Israelis claim that relations with Sudan, which Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen recently visited, will be normalized later this year. Under former US President Donald Trump, the two …
(2023-03-06). 37 Israeli 'Top Guns' Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli Air Force, like its other armed forces, heavily depends on reservists. That was why Egypt was able to surprise Israel in the 1973 War, which they launched on the holy day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when reservists were with their families. The reservists are required …
(2023-03-06). China's peace plan & It's about everything. indybay.org In times of crisis, right-wing populists, with the benevolent support of influential media, play the national card and pit disadvantaged groups of people against each other. Scapegoats, like Jews in the past and refugees today, are made responsible for the collapse of the welfare state and security.